https://www.amazon.fr/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1942993544
Japan's worst nuclear radiation accident took place at a uranium
reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, on 30 September
1999. The direct cause of the accident was cited as the depositing of a
uranyl nitrate solution--containing about 16.6 kg of uranium, which
exceeded the critical mass--into a precipitation tank. Three workers
were exposed to extreme doses of radiation.
Hiroshi Ouchi, one
of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital
Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff
initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person
exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand
was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually
weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells.
The
doctors were at a loss as to what to do. There were very few precedents
and proven medical treatments for the victims of radiation poisoning.
Less than 20 nuclear accidents had occurred in the world to that point,
and most of those happened 30 years ago. This book documents the
following 83 days of treatment until his passing, with detailed
descriptions and explanations of the radiation poisoning.